Nothing to get: ZDF “Morgenmagazin”
Anyone who regularly watches the public broadcaster’s “morning magazine” for breakfast often has the thought: what would not be gained in terms of the so often called for “streamlining” of the channels if the unspeakable morning “sports reporting” were eliminated. Mostly it’s about results that everyone already knows, mainly from football games or, as a “gap filler”, sometimes from handball, volleyball or basketball. Broadcast minutes so flat, banal and superfluous that no one noticed when they were omitted.
This week we didn’t notice for a second the early death of Chemnitz track cycling icon Michael Hübner, seven-time world champion between 1986 and 1995 and – not just because of his thigh circumference of more than one meter – an exceptional phenomenon in track sprints and keirin. Also not a single syllable about the games of the German participants in the Champions Hockey League (CHL), where the ice hockey teams from Bremerhaven and Straubing won 5-0 in the first legs of the round of 16 against Skellefteå AIK from Sweden and the ZSC Lions from Switzerland respectively 2:4 documents. Not a word about the upheaval that threatens German sport after the traffic light goes out.
Instead, daily water level reports from circumnavigator Boris Herrmann, who receives a few film snippets every day until he reaches the finish line in just under a quarter of a year. Jamal Musiala has also been the subject of discussion several times because the press officers of the German Football Association (DFB) presented the Bayern player at the press conference before the upcoming two international matches. If the DFB officials had sent the mascot, the bus driver or the team chef into the question and answer session, you can be sure that they would also have been reported on in “Moma”.
A breakfast format with no nutritional value. You can save yourself.
